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If one designs some hardware or software that functions as intended, it shows understanding of the concepts behind the theory. If one takes home trophies in a sport, it show that their approach is generally more correct than their opponents.

Historically:

If one is 20 for 20 out of real predictions made; there is the strong likelihood that the predictor understands how many of the variables at play interact better than most. This is called pattern recognition (not clairvoyance).

How can you be absolutely right about a spiritual or philosophical issue? If you were always right people would not disagree...it would be self evident. I am using "you" in the general sense, not to mean Swami necessarily.

Many issues here involve non spiritual moral issues. Your 20K has no bearing on them. By the way...you really got 20K to spend on that?

--------------------"A warrior is a hunter. He calculates everything. That's control. Once his calculations are over, he acts. He lets go. That's abandon. A warrior is not a leaf at the mercy of the wind. No one can push him; no one can make him do things against himself or against his better judgment. A warrior is tuned to survive, and he survives in the best of all possible fashions." ― Carlos Castaneda

and does that have anything to do with spiritual and philosophical issues???

It depends on whom is doing the defining does it not? "Spiritual" is a vague term representing some unkown or unknowable part of our "essence". That being said, ALL of my challenges have been related to paranormal claims made here on S&P, and usually made by self-proclaimed "spiritual" people. That is all I have to go on.

If someone says, I believe in OBEs; there is not much to debate. However, if someone says I can go to any remote location in my astral body, then they are ripe to be tested.

--------------------"A warrior is a hunter. He calculates everything. That's control. Once his calculations are over, he acts. He lets go. That's abandon. A warrior is not a leaf at the mercy of the wind. No one can push him; no one can make him do things against himself or against his better judgment. A warrior is tuned to survive, and he survives in the best of all possible fashions." ― Carlos Castaneda